Jello Poke Cake Retro Recipes #SundaySupper

Strawberry Jello Poke Cake Retro Recipes

This Strawberry JELLO Poke Cake recipe is one of those retro recipes that will never go out of style. Fun to make and impressive to serve for any occasion. A dessert recipe that will have everyone excited to bite into a piece of strawberry flavored cake smothered in a layer of Cool Whip Topping.

#SundaySupper Retro Recipes

This weekend’s #SundaySupper is all about Retro recipes, then and now. If you poke around on my site you will see how much I love old vintage recipes. I even have a Vintage Recipe Project where I remake old family recipes from my collection of recipe cards and cookbooks that my mother-in-law has passed down to me.

Strawberry Jello Poke Cake

If you’d like to check out the vintage recipes you can click on the Vintage Recipes category for a full list of all the vintage recipes I have updated or made in the past.

We all have recipes that bring back fond childhood memories. Jello played a big part in my childhood.

I can remember how excited I would get when my mom made jello. Sometimes it would be plain jello and whipped cream. Other times it might be a beautiful jello dessert with fruit cocktail mixed in and I would dig around in my bowl hoping I got a cherry half. What a disappointment it was when there was no cherry to be found in my bowl!

Strawberry Jello Poke Cake #SundaySupper

For Sunday Supper this week I decided to try my hand at a Jello Poke Cake. Back in the day you would frost a Poke Cake with Cool Whip but Kraft has a new Cool Whip Frosting now that is to die for. So I updated this vintage/retro recipe by using the new Cool Whip Frosting.

I hope this #SundaySupper brings back some fun childhood memories for you also!

What fun Jello dessert did you eat as a child?

Scroll down past the recipe for the rest of the Sunday Supper Retro Recipes.

Print the Jello Poke Cake recipe below

Strawberry Jello Poke Cake Retro Recipes

This JELL-O Poke cake is a retro recipe that has been enjoyed by millions for many years.

Author:Arlene Mobley

Prep Time:8 Minutes

Cook Time:28 Minutes

Total Time:36 minutes

Yield:8 Servings

Category:Dessert

Method:Bake

Cuisine:American

Ingredients

1 box of white cake mix or your favorite homemade white cake recipe

ingredients to make cake

2 – 3 oz boxes of Strawberry Jello

2 1/2 cups of water, divided

1 tub Vanilla Kraft Cool Whip Frosting

Instructions

Cake

Make the cake mix as directed.

Cool for 1 hour.

Using a wooden spoon poke holes all around the top of the cake.

Jello Portion of recipe

After the cake has cooled boil 2 cups of water.

Stir in the two boxes of jello.

Stir until Jello has disolved.

Add the remaining 1/2 cup of cold water and stir.

Pour the jello over the cooled cake.

Chill at least 3 hours or overnight.

Frosting

Frost with Vanilla Cool Whip Frosting

This Week’s Sunday Supper is all about “Retro Recipes.” Those food memories that immediately take us back in time. Some of us enjoyed them so much that we will never change our mom’s or grandma’s recipe.

Other’s were ready to reinvent and update their favorite Retro Recipe.

Join us Around the Family Table this Sunday at 7pm Eastern Time and share your favorite Retro Food Memory with us!

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I remember jello poke cakes. I had a friend and her Mom always made them. I could never get my Mom to try them though. When I had sleepovers at this friends home we would try and convince her Mom that this cake was necessary. Some times it worked and some times it did not. Thanks for reintroducing a childhood favorite back into my line up recipes to make this year.

Such a fun retro recipe. My kids and I still make this all the time, because well – I just don’t think it’s ever going to stop being a fun cake for kids (and adults… I will admit).
Yours looks delicious!

I’m not a big fan of Jello, but I have a nostalgic fondness for poke cake. I remember one that had both blue and red Jello in a white cake for Fourth of July that was pretty, with the red and blue stripes. Thanks for reminding me of this!

Sorry for the confusion. I never had an original cool whip frosting recipe. I came across that info while researching Jello recipes. I do believe Cool Whip did sell a boxed frosting mix many years ago. Maybe that was used but I am not sure of that is available any more.

I came across your recipe while i was looking for a cake recipe to bake for my wife’s birthday. You just brought back great memories. I am definitely going to prepare this for my wife’s 37th birthday. thank you for sharing. i love your retro style blog and recipes.

I’m very curious about how you did the poke cake to get two layers. Did you do the poke & jello before removing the layers from the pans? If so, how did you get the layers out? We have always served a poke cake out of the baking pan.

Your photographs are amazing!!! I just came across your blog while looking for recipes. I am newly married and to be honest I am not the best cook. I wanted to surprise my husband and I decided to go with your recipe. Well, Thank you so much!!! I cannot describe in words how happy he was. He gained confidence in me that i will be able to cook. I know it takes years but I will definitely wait for your new posts for new surprises:)

This is the second time I tired the recipe and to be honest it tastes delicious but it doesn’t look anything like your creative design. Hopefully, the next time its not only going to taste good but also will look good.

Thanks soooooo much for posting the original frosting recipe! I used to make this cake with that frosting and cannot find my recipe or find it on the internet !! Thank you, thank you!! Nothing can compare to that original homemade frosting!! Thanks!!

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